Brother Earl

Famous quotes containing the words brother and/or earl:

    We came into the world like brother and brother;
    And now let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)